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1 Mark
| Issuer | Horn in Lippe, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Grey-blue and yellow horizontal note with a central circular vignette containing the large numeral '1' over the word 'MARK', surrounded by a stylised rosette guilloche. The inscriptions 'NOTGELD HORN' to the left and 'DER STADT IN LIPPE' to the right flank the central vignette, with redemption text and issuing authority legends in smaller letterpress. Two facsimile signatures appear below the date 'NOVEMBER 1921', followed by a serial number in the lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | HORN i. LIPPE HORNSCHER SCHLACHTSCHWERTIERER (Translation: HORN in LIPPE SWORD SWINGERS OF HORN) |
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Horn is a small town in the Lippe region of what is now North Rhine-Westphalia, and its municipal authority issued this note during the Weimar-era Kleingeldersatz crisis — the acute small-change shortage that followed hyperinflation's first wave and pushed hundreds of German municipalities into emergency currency production. The printer, Gustav Heynke of Kanne und Kühne in Detmold, handled notgeld commissions for several Lippe district towns during this period, which accounts for the family resemblance across issues from the region.
The watermark security feature is unusual for municipal paper of this denomination and scale — most one-mark Kleingeldscheine from comparable towns used plain stock.